On Nov 12, 2012, at 11:49 PM, Christian Huitema <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No. Today if you have a set of PA prefixes and your address changes from > one >> to another, your TCP connections all break. > > That's true, has been for quite some time, and yet nobody seems to be doing > much about it. Which makes you wonder how big of a problem that is in > practice. If applications were really hurting, you would hear complaints > from application developers. But you don't. The applications that need > reliable long duration sessions incorporate some trivial checkpoint and > restart mechanism, or some pretty elaborate consistency protocols for big > databases. They probably would do that no matter what the reliability of > TCP, as long as it is not "perfect." And PA renumbering is probably not very > high in their list of "stuff that occasionally break TCP." They don't do PA renumbering. They do PI instead. Clearly checkpoint and restart are not sufficient, otherwise they could do PA easily. Again, this has been discussed endlessly already. Tony _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
